a typical friday in belfast‘s cathedral quarter, pre—pandemic. it's a ghost town here now, and the government says that pubs and bars will be some of the last places that can reopen. we have nearly 80% of our staff on furlough at the moment, so we are being very clear and direct with the government and saying, "if you want our pubs to survive this, you must support us throughout the period of closure and also throughout the period of reopening." but with some forms of social distancing possibly lasting up to the end of the year, that won't happen quickly. meanwhile there are questions over the extent to which a pub is allowed to bring the bar to you. emma vardy, bbc news. throughout the coronavirus outbreak, we've been hearing from front line health workers about the challenges they face. our health correspondent catherine burns is keeping in touch with a range of staff, and has asked them to keep video diaries. this evening we hear from physiotherapist

tom meredith, who filmed himself and his colleagues in southampton. physiotherapy might not seem an obvious part of the front—line fight against coronavirus, but tom meredith says his work is crucial. it's 7:45am. bye. ijust dropped off my daughter to nursery, and now i'm heading in to start my shift. we have five wards up here with about 70 patients, all with coronavirus, age ranging from 90s down into their 30s. some are too frail for intensive care. their bodies would just not cope with being on a ventilator. tom and his team try to help clear their chests so they can breathe. sometimes that won't work, and they can only make them comfortable. others, though, are at the start of the long road to recovery. so we're just off to see a patient now for some rehabilitation, with myself and taylor and charlotte here. this gentleman is a step down from intensive care,

he was in intensive care for about three weeks, so he's very, very weak. michael cox moved down to the general covid ward a few days ago. now it's time to try to stand up and take his first step. this is what success looks like. slow, painful and exhausting. but genuine progress. great! that was your first steps. everybody that i've had dealings with here have been brilliant. absolutely brilliant. so it's two o'clock now, and we're heading back onto the wards for the afternoon session. the team sees patients who have been weakened by the virus. theirjob is to get them well enough to start their lives properly again. when stanley came into hospital, he was told he had maybe two days to live. that was over a month ago. cheering. i had to have the mask on my face all the time. as soon as i took it off, i started suffocating.

and bit by bit, with you guys and the doctors and nurses and everybody else, thank god for them, we started turning things around. and we've all seen a fair few number of patients being discharged home or back to their care homes today, so some really nice, positive stuff going on today. and then back to his family. tom normally works with cystic fibrosis patients, and is used to helping sick people. but he says there is last month has been intense, emotional and sometimes distressing. i've seen things which will stay with me for a long time. equally, though, he's proud of the work that he and thousands of other therapists are doing, bringing hope to people at their most vulnerable time. catherine burns, bbc news. 99—year—old captain tom moore has raised almost £30 million walking 100 laps of his garden.

now he has gone one step further by becoming the oldest person ever to have a number one hit single. # walk on with hope in your heart # and you'll never walk alone his version of you'll never walk alone, a duet with michael ball, sold 82,000 copies, with proceeds going to the nhs charities together fund. and next thursday he'll set another record too when he turns 100, making him the first centenarian to top the charts. wonderful man. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are.

hello to viewers in the uk and around the world. we're bringing you the latest briefing from the white house when that gets under way. first, it's time for the papers. welcome to the papers. with me are claire cohen, the women's editorfor the daily telegraph and benedicte paviot, the uk correspondent for france 24. in the uk, the financial times weekend edition looks at how china dealt with the coronavirus and how pressure on testing in the uk overwhelms a government website. in france, le figaro asks

whether or not summer holidays are going to happen this year. the international new york times looks at how the number of people facing acute food shortages could reach 265 million globally. the daily mail says that britons could be allowed to socialise with up to ten of their closest family and friends in order to ease the lockdown. the independent asks whether different approaches to easing the lockdown may lead to a fracturing of the united kingdom. the daily telegraph suggests businesses are being secretly advised on plans to get britons back to work and to restart the economy. and the sun says that premier league football could be back within weeks, with plans to televise all games and play matches behind closed doors. let's talk now to claire the front

page of the ft weekend pressure on testing mounts as applications overwhelmed. this is the online site for all key workers and their families to apply to to be able to get tests and it was overwhelmed, wasn't it stop you think the government would realise this would happen being that they are are 10 million key workers in this country. a6,000 they are are 10 million key workers in this country. 16,000 people log on and within two minutes, it crashed or they turned it off. which ever you want to believe. but it's surprising at all —— hardly surprising at all —— hardly surprising at all —— hardly surprising at all. the thing that really concerns me is this development today that actually, you don't have to prove you're a key worker in order to book one of the spots, which obviously suggests that key workers may be missing out on vital tests. the government has said

they will take it on trust. i think they will take it on trust. i think the phrase they used was faith. but you got to think if that's the case, perhaps there will be more focus on reaching that hundred thousand test a day target and actually testing the right people. benedict, the interesting thing here is about capacity versus actual tests, am i correct? the government says that 100,000 capacity, but we are all thinking, wait a minute, 100,000 capacity, but we are all thinking, waita minute, we 100,000 capacity, but we are all thinking, wait a minute, we thought there would actually be 100,000 tests. yes, that's right. that 100,000 figure is a bit of a noose around hancock's neck and he 's been under pressure as well as the government. i think what we mustn't lose sight of, and this is good news, it's good news that many people want to do the tests. but i think there is a —— this is

wonderful. that's not true for in france when you have to show a piece of id and i think it would not be an extraordinary thing to ask people to present some id. let's not lose the perspective that the uk tonight will definitely tomorrow, 20,000 deaths in hospitals. if we had about 7000, at least that in care homes, then the united kingdom hasjoined a very sad list of italy, spain, france, who already have 20,000 deaths and hospitals. but unlike france, the united kingdom still does not give a daily figure four people dying either in the community or in residential care. i think that needs to change. suddenly what is not in that important article on the front page, we mustn't lose sight of it is true that scotland, wales and

northern ireland seem to be very much starting to engage and explain what a lack of lockdown or less of a lockdown will look like. i think it's notjust lockdown will look like. i think it's not just about treating people like adults but... how that messaging very public sleep —— publicly. i'm sorry to interrupt you but what i have to go live to the white house now, because president trump is starting his daily briefing. let's listen. half of all americans live in states who have taken steps to open their economies. yesterday governors announced initial plans to restart certain sectors. we asked every american to maintain vigilance and hygiene, social distancing and volu nta ry hygiene, social distancing and voluntary use of face coverings. we

are opening our country. it's very it's very exciting to see. lots of talent with people who just stand there and help you with the doors. there's been tremendous talent and spirit involved from our country. it's a great place and it's going to be greater than ever before. i really believe that. i think there's going to be a tremendous upward shift. i spoke with tim cook today of apple. they have a good sense of the market and they think it will —— the market and they think it will —— the v will be sharply upward. today, i signed the paycheque protection programme providing $320 billion to keep american workers on the payroll. $30 billion of the paycheque protection funds will be reserved for small financial institutions, including those who

serve minority communities, extending vital reliefs to thousands of african—americans and hispanic americans, small business owners and their employees. the bill also delivers a $75 billion for hospitals, so badly needed for hospitals. they taken a very big hit. and medical providers in areas less affected by the virus, hospitals and doctors should work with their local health officials on ways to safely resume elective medical treatments and care. under the care act, we're sending direct payments to millions of american workers, more than 80 million americans have already received their payment. 31100 dollars for a typicalfamily of their payment. 31100 dollars for a typical family of four. $3400, that's great. and you deserve it. the cares act requires that the federal government send out a notice of what benefits americans are receiving to fulfil the requirement. the treasury department ‘s mailing a

letter to me. it will include the amount, the economic impact payment, how it will arrive, direct deposit, checked or prepaid debit card as well as a message to the nation letting each american know that we are getting through this challenge together as one american family. that's what's been happening. the whole world is watching us. we have 184 countries out there that have been hit and now it's probably higher than that. but they are all watching us. they're all watching and calling and respect what we're doing so much. i spoke with the leaders of numerous countries today. they're asking if we can send them ventilators and i'm agreeing to do it. we have tremendous capacity, now over capacity of ventilators. we're filling up stop files for our states and for ourselves. the federal government is over 10,000 ventilators and we can have a lot more if we wanted to do that, but we are helping mexico, honduras,

indonesia, france, where you're sending to spain, italy, and probably german easter they need them. 0ver probably german easter they need them. over the last three years, we built the most successful economy in the world. —— germany if they need them. nobody has ever done anything like what we were able to do. and we will rebuild that economy. 0ur economy in the not—too—distant future, i really believe with all that we've learned and all that we've done, will be just as strong and may be stronger than ever before, even stronger than it was just a few months ago. some interesting notes is that the fda approved the first at home covid—19 testing kit. it just approved the first at home covid—19 testing kit. itjust got approved and doctor steven, where is stephen? he is going to say a couple words about that and some other things. i wa nt to about that and some other things. i want to thank him. the fda has been

incredible. they've been approving many things at a pace that's never happened before. they‘ re many things at a pace that's never happened before. they're being the very safe about it. steven told me very safe about it. steven told me very strongly. but at the same time, they are improving things at record numbers at a record rate. it's really been helpful. many tests are going on, many vaccine tests. tests of every different kind and things are happening just like this, things are happening just like this, things are travelling very rapidly i'd like to have stephen tell you a little bit about it. thank you very much. thank you, mr president. i appreciate the opportunity. we had a team of more than 18,000 employees, including 10,000 scientists, doctors, pharmacists and nurses and they been working around the clock. as you probably know, many of the medical products that are being used for the outbreak are in fact regulated by fda. the staff have been hard at work authorising tests and other medical products. as